screen presence

noun

: a quality that attracts attention in movies
She has tremendous screen presence.

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One of the first actors to become known as much for his voice as his screen presence. John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2024 American popular culture would be diminished without Giancarlo Esposito, an actor whose screen presence is as lyrical as his name. Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2024 Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, known for his charismatic screen presence and shedding his shirt for both action and romantic roles over his three-decade career, is opening up about his motivation, the occasional lack of it, and what sustains his passion for film. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024 To those in Paris’s Stade de France, and to the millions more watching on livestreams, there was a magnetism in Thomas’s stage and screen presence. Nick Remsen, Vogue, 7 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for screen presence 

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“Screen presence.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/screen%20presence. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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